Despite his lip-service to democracy and human rights, Biden keeps embracing autocrats and would-be autocrats

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There’s always a choice, but while Modi’s India is a fairly bad ally, it’s still better than others, like Saudi Arabia. Gotta pick your battles.

Maybe some day when the important conflicts are in a different region we can take India to task over things like their police-sanctioned cybercriminals that keep robbing the elderly.

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police-sanctioned cybercriminals that keep robbing the elderly.

Lmao. The police here are far too busy harassing innocent citizens to do that.

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Yes, they have a choice. Ignoring India’s issues including that they in fact increase trade with Russia massively is not what stops them from going on like this.

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Making an enemy of a country with 1 billion people is absurd reddit-tier kind of logic. It’s far better to have a country like India as a close ally

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Yes, but ignoring their issues doesn’t make them a close ally. Just another one roughy affiliated, that knows it can do whatever without consequence other than strongly worded letters.

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The US already has one enemy with a billion people, why not two?

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Why would India join any sphere? India’s success historically has always been from a policy of neutrality and having the Himalayan mountains block any ideas against that neutrality.

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Why would the US stop supporting autocratic and illiberal regimes now? Did we find our principles at any point in the last 70 years?

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Illiberal? The BJP party and the RSS are fascists.

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Can confirm, it’s literally 1939 and we force Muslims to wear gold stars and send them to concentration camps.

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PM Modi says “Identify them by their clothes”, and all over India Hindu supremacists beat Muslim men to death after forcing them praise the Hindu god Ram.
PM Modi ignores and refuses to discuss the ethnic & communal genocidal civil war in Manipur that is in its 5th month, while churches are burnt and Kukis have been ethnically cleansed from Imphal valley.
Peacefully protesting Sikh farmers are called Khalistani and terrorists while a violet hindu supremacist attacks them under Delhi police’s eye.

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Yeah we have daily ritual of beating Muslims. Not to mention this clothing we make them wear. It is required by PM modi’s law to kick a Muslim whenever we see them.

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Wow. Genocide is not a minimum criteria for fascism.

Fascism is characterized by an ideology that one group of people is superior to others. That’s literally the ideology of the RSS. Hindu nationalism is fascism.

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It’s hilarious how many different definitions of fascism I see on Lemmy on a given day

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Do we Indians have a server on Lemmy? just wondering.

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Oh, I forgot the part where a country could be fascist without literally committing the Holocaust.

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As an Indian, this issue is far more complex than you make it out to be. I never voted for BJP but yeah, they are not fascists, but the potential is there. RSS is basically like the military wing of BJP, more accurately, BJP is the political wing of RSS.

We Indians have seen oppression under the left and the right, so we don’t usually use these labels so loosely.

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The RSS was created based on fascism and its laders were huge fans of Hitler & Mussolini.

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If the goal is economic transformation, socialism works.

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Socialism is like the ex we thought was too pretty but turned out not to be that pretty :(

Tried that, didn’t work all that good. Although it kinda had it’s advantages. I like what we have in India better

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Unsure what they think letting India have only Russia to turn to would gain the US, but I promise it isn’t realistic.

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Well at least he’s not sending love letters to little Kim.

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